Welcome to the Reichert Media Library

Here, we offer our high-quality monographs, textbooks and manuals in the fields of archaeology, oriental studies, history, musicology, music therapy, linguistics, art history, book and library science as well as facsimile editions of important medieval and early modern manuscripts and incunabula – all conveniently and securely available as eBooks. In addition to our current publications, our Media Library also holds a large part of our backlist, which we are constantly expanding, as well as additional material such as our TAVO maps, music and video files for various titles and audio files for selected language textbooks. Happy browsing!

New releases

Herausgegeben von der Deutschen Musiktherapeutischen Gesellschaft. Redaktion: Hanna Schirmer

Jahrbuch Musiktherapie / Music Therapy Annual

Band 5 (2009) Musiktherapie und emotionale Differenzierung / Vol. 5 (2009) Music Therapy and Emotional Differentiation

204 p., E-book
Open Access

This volume deals with emotional differentiation, with differentiation of affects, and with regulation of affects in music therapy. Therapists generally address their attention to the manner in which the emotional expression changes, is refined, or is broken in the course …

Herausgegeben von der Deutschen Musiktherapeutischen Gesellschaft. Bis Band 3 (2007) Jahrbuch Musiktherapie herausgegeben vom Berufsverband der Musiktherapeutinnen und Musiktherapeuten in Deutschland e.V. (BVM). Redaktion: Hanna Schirmer

Jahrbuch Musiktherapie / Music Therapy Annual

Band 4 (2008) »Drittes Reich«, Zweiter Weltkrieg und danach – Spuren der Vergangenheit / Vol. 4 (2008) Third Reich, World War II and Thereafter – Traces of the Past

214 p., E-book
Open Access

This volume of the Music Therapy Annual focuses on the therapy of patients with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) caused by war, forced displacement, serious accidents and natural disasters.

Herausgegeben vom Berufsverband der Musiktherapeutinnen und Musiktherapeuten in Deutschland e.V. (BMV). Redaktion: Hanna Schirmer

Jahrbuch Musiktherapie / Music Therapy Annual

Band 3 (2007) Kultursensibilität und Musiktherapie / Vol. 3 (2007) Therapeutic Sensivity to Culture Specific Issues

224 p., E-book
Open Access

This volume is dedicated to the encounter with people from other cultures. Almost daily we are confronted with news about terror and violence, less often we read about reconciliation. But often music can build a bridge. For example, an annual …

Herausgegeben vom Berufsverband der Musiktherapeutinnen und Musiktherapeuten in Deutschland e.V. (BMV). Redaktion: Hanna Schirmer

Jahrbuch Musiktherapie / Music Therapy Annual

Band 2 (2006) Schöpferisches Potential der Musiktherapie vor dem Hintergrund gegenwärtiger Rahmenbedingungen / Vol. 2 (2006) Creative Potential and Current Practice Settings

224 p., E-book
Open Access

From the contents:
Barbara Keller, Cornelia Klären, Ursula Pfefferle: Musik auf Rädern GbR – ambulante Musiktherapie – Gründung und Etablierung eines Dienstleistungsunternehmens und Erfahrungen aus der musiktherapeutischen Arbeit mit alten Menschen

Pia Neiwert: Musiktherapeutische Methoden in der beruflichen Weiterbildung

Cynthia A. Briggs, Susan …

Herausgegeben vom Berufsverband der Musiktherapeutinnen und Musiktherapeuten in Deutschland e.V. (BMV). Redaktion: Hanna Schirmer

Jahrbuch Musiktherapie / Music Therapy Annual

Band 1 (2005) Forschung und Entwicklung / Vol. 1 (2005) Research and Development

196 p., E-book
Open Access

The title "Research and Development" was chosen for the first issue of the "Jahrbuch Musiktherapie", a motto that will never lose its relevance. In this yearbook, contributions are published that deal with the respective topic or individual aspects of it …

Purpur in Byzanz

Privileg und Würdeformel

288 p., E-book
49.00 €
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As a supplement to the studies mentioned above and in response to the persistent desideratum of the few pictorial sources that have been analysed, this work focuses on the significance of purple fabric and purple colour in pictorial works and …

Impermanent Monuments, Lasting Legacies: The Dār al-Khilāfa of Samarra and Palace Building in Early Abbasid Iraq

216 p., E-book
129.00 €
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This book offers a new interpretation of early Abbasid palaces as “impermanent monuments.” Synthesizing an array of sources, ranging from archaeological finds and classical Arabic literature to modern studies on the social and intellectual history of Islamic civilization, it reveals …